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Beethoven in America<br />
Michael Broyles<br />
A pop-cultural tour of Beethoven’s America<br />
Beethoven permeates American culture. His image appears on countless busts and<br />
coffee mugs; his music is heard in movie scores, TV soundtracks, commercials, and pop<br />
songs; he is Schroeder’s god in Peanuts and Chuck Berry’s freaked-out parent in “Roll<br />
over Beethoven.” In this book, Michael Broyles seeks to understand the composer as<br />
he exists in the American imagination and explores how Beethoven became a cultural<br />
icon. Broyles examines Beethoven’s appearance in a variety of contexts: American<br />
commercialism, the Afrocentrist and black power movements, and the modernist<br />
critique of Romanticism. He considers portrayals of Beethoven in American film and<br />
theater and the uses of his music in film scores, as well as references to Beethoven<br />
and his music in disco, country, rock, and rap. In the end, he shows that to examine<br />
Beethoven on American soil is to examine America itself.<br />
Beethoven<br />
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M i c h a e l B r oyl e s<br />
Michael Broyles is Professor of Music at Florida State <strong>University</strong> and former Distinguished<br />
Professor of Music and Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State <strong>University</strong>. His most<br />
recent book (with Denise Von Glahn), Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices (IUP,<br />
2007), won the Irving Lowens Prize in 2007.<br />
“This book fills a great gap in our understanding<br />
both of Beethoven and of American culture.<br />
The panorama of this narrative encompasses<br />
antebellum rice plantations in South Carolina and<br />
the film studios of Hollywood, music critic John<br />
Dwight and rock star Chuck Berry, Theosophy<br />
and Black Power, Beethoven’s sketches, and<br />
YouTube videos.”<br />
—Christopher Reynolds,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of California, Davis<br />
Also of Interest<br />
Leo Ornstein<br />
Cloth 978-0-253-34894-4 $34.95s<br />
The Great American Symphony<br />
Cloth 978-0-253-35305-4 $24.95t<br />
November 2011<br />
Music, Popular Culture<br />
World<br />
376 pages, 61 b&w illus., 6 x 9<br />
Cloth 978-0-253-35704-5 $29.95t £19.99<br />
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